Compensation Quotes

179 quotes by 154 authors

Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought… — Cynthia McKinney
The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles. — Orrin Woodward
And light is mingled with the gloom, And joy with grief; Divinest compensations come, Through thorns of judgment mercies bloom In sweet relief. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from… — Barney Frank
If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions… — Lou Gerstner
All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree. — Newt Gingrich
Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order. — Cary Grant
One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law… — Ted Cruz
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. — Roald Dahl
It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you elevate the heels more so than you elevate the sole of the foot, you trigger a cascade of compensations in the knees and… — Tim Ferriss
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely. — Kin Hubbard
There is nothing to be said for being crippled. You don't see the world better or clearer, nor do you develop some special set of… — Tony Judt
The fact is, that with the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Jews fled Arab countries, almost all of whom… — Meir Kahane
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. — Soren Kierkegaard
Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do CEOs insist on… — Simon Mainwaring
Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both. — Marilyn Monroe
I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In that sense, I… — Michelle Pfeiffer
My father had a series of blue-collar jobs and never made more than $20,000 a year. When I was seven, he got injured on a… — Howard Schultz

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